Over the last four nights, Italy has been showing off some of their best talent through the Sanremo Song Festival. For Eurovision fans, this is also a Song Festival to take note of, as the winner of the Big Artists section is likely to go on and represent Italy at Eurovision. In total, 22 Big artists have taken to the stage, and now there are 16 who will perform in the Sanremo final tonight. Over the last three nights, the Newcomers section has taken place with 8 artists in total. In our last post about Sanremo, we had given the results from night 1 and 2, so let’s recap night 3 and 4, and talk about who’s participating in the final tonight.
Night 3
On the third night, the Big Artists performed their cover songs. In total there were 16 artists to perform, with the 6 others who missed out on performing their cover songs the same artists who had reached the bottom three in both night 1 and 2.
Within Sanremo, there is another competition, and this is for the cover songs. The three most popular cover songs were voted to be:
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Ermal Meta – Amara Terra Mia (Domenico Modugno)
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Paola Turci – Un’emozione da poco (Anna Oxa)
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Marco Masini – Signor Tenente (Giorgio Faletti)
The bottom 6 artists also got a second chance to be readmitted to the final, with four places still available. The top four artists who returned to the competition were:
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Ron – L’ottava Meraviglia
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Bianca Atzei – Ora Esisti solo tu
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Clementino – Ragazzi Fuori
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Guisy Ferreri – Fa Talmente Male
This meant that Raige ft Guilia Luzi and Nesli ft Alica Paba were eliminated.
The Newcomers section also continued with four artists performing:
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Meldestro – Canzone per Federica
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Tommaso Pini – Cose che danno ansia
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Valeria Farinacci – Insieme
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Lele – Ora Mai
From these four, Maldestro and Lele qualified into the Newcomers Final.
Night 4
During the 4th night, all 20 remaining songs were performed again. The scores from the previous nights were not counted, so each artists had a clean slate. The last 4 songs in the voting were eliminated from the competition.
The running order was:
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Ron – L’ottava Meraviglia
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Chiara Galiazzo – Nessun posto è casa mia
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Samuel – Vedrai
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Al Bano – Di Rose e di Spine
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Ermal Meta – Vietato morire
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Michele Bravi – Il diario degli errori
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Fiorella Mannoia – Che sia benedetta
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Clementino – Ragazzi Fuori (From Second chance)
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Lodovica Comello – Il cielo non mi basta
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Gigi D’Alessio – La Prima Stella
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Paola Turci – Fatti bella per te
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Marco Masini – Spostato di un secondo
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Francesco Gabbani – Occidentali’s karma
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Michele Zarrillo – Mani nelle mani
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Bianca Atzei – Ora esisti solo tu (From Second chance)
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Sergio Sylvestre – Con te
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Elodie – Tutta colpa mia
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Fabrizio Moro – Portami via
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Giusy Ferreri – Fa Talmente Male
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Alessio Bernabei – Nel mezzo di un applauso
The bottom four who are now eliminated are:
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Ron
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Al Bano
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Gigi D’Alessio
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Giusy Ferreri
In the Newcomers section, the final four performed for the winners position. Here was the line-up:
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Leonardo La Macchia – Ciò che resta
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Lele – Ora Mai
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Maldestro – Canzone per Federica
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Francesco Gausti – Universo
The winner of the Newcomers was Lele with the song Ora Mai!
Night 5
Here’s the final line up for the Big Artists Section:
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Chiara Galiazzo – Nessun posto è casa mia
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Samuel – Vedrai
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Ermal Meta – Vietato morire
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Michele Bravi – Il diario degli errori
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Fiorella Mannoia – Che sia benedetta
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Clementino – Ragazzi Fuori
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Lodovica Comello – Il cielo non mi basta
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Paola Turci – Fatti bella per te
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Marco Masini – Spostato di un secondo
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Francesco Gabbani – Occidentali’s karma
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Michele Zarrillo – Mani nelle mani
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Bianca Atzei – Ora esisti solo tu
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Sergio Sylvestre – Con te
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Elodie – Tutta colpa mia
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Fabrizio Moro – Portami via
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Alessio Bernabei – Nel mezzo di un applauso